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The Harvard Center for International Development is home to faculty affiliates from each school at Harvard University, working across sectors in developing nations around the world.

Faculty research is published in a wide range of academic and policy venues and can be found through the feed and filters below. Select faculty research papers are highlighted in our Faculty Research Insights series on our blog, CID Voices.

CID working papers published by Harvard faculty, graduate students, and research fellows prior to 2024 can be found here. 

CID Faculty Research Insights

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Can Chile Escape an Inequality Trap? …And Why It Matters for Long-Term Development and Growth
Michael Walton
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP24-008
This paper explores the nature and drivers of inequality in Chile. It is a companion paper to Lecaros et al (2023) that analyzed the widespread citizen perceptions and concerns…
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The Dollar versus the Euro as International Reserve Currencies
Jeffrey Frankel
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP24-005
We begin by examining determinants of aggregate foreign exchange reserve holdings by central banks (size of issuing country’s economy and financial markets, ability of the…
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Thinking about Parents: Gender and Field of Study
Michela Carlana
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP24-006
Globally, women remain underrepresented in STEM. Our lab-in-the-field study delves into parental influence on adolescents’ perceptions of scientific versus humanistic aptitude. We…
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Using Satellite Imagery to Detect the Impacts of New Highways: An Application to India
Gordon Hanson
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP24-003
This paper integrates daytime and nighttime satellite imagery into a spatial general-equilibrium model to evaluate the returns to investments in new motorways. Our approach has…
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Investigator Racial Diversity and Clinical Trial Participation
Marcella Alsan
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP23-029
We investigate whether increased racial diversity of clinical trial principal investigators could increase the enrollment of Black patients, which currently lags population and…
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Allocative Skill
David Deming
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP23-028
Jobs increasingly require good decision-making. Workers are valued not only for how much they can do, but also for their ability to decide what to do. In this paper we develop a…
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Globalization and Factor Income Taxation
Anders Jensen
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP23-027
Exploiting a new global macro-historical database of effective tax rates, we uncover an intriguing pro-tax-capacity effect of international trade. While effective capital tax…
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Great Dilution: The Global Impact of the US Inflation Shock on Sovereign Debt
Gautam Nair
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP22-009
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities. Unanticipated inflation dilutes the real…
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Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
David Deming
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP23-021
Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges — which currently have many more students…
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The New Economics of Industrial Policy
Dani Rodrik
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP23-022
We discuss the considerable literature that has developed in recent years providing rigorous evidence on how industrial policies work. This literature is a significant improvement…